WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0067. Fragments from imperial titulature

Description: Six fragments, all possibly from the same white marble panel. a) Top edge, surviving, w: 0.16 x h: 0.165. b) Top edge, surviving, w: 0.10 x h: 0.125. c) Top edge, surviving, w: 0.13 x h: 0.13. d) No edges surviving, w: 0.13 x h: 0.11. e) No edges surviving, w: 0.22 x h: 0.23 . f) No edges surviving, w: 0.12 x h: 0.14.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Second to third centuries lapidary capitals: 0.08.

Date: Second to early third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Sabratha: Regio I, Capitolium, found in the vaults; see note on 1.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

a
[---]fiḷ- [---]
b
[---][---]
c
[---]P̣Ị [---]
d
[---] OẠḶ [---]
e
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[---]RAN [---]
[---]OPRA [---]
f
[---]ES [---]
[---]UG̣ [---]

Diplomatic

a
[---]FI.[---]
b
[---].[---]
c
[---]..[---]
d
[---] O..[---]
e
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[---]RAN[---]
[---]OPRA[---]
f
[---]ES[---]
[---]U.[---]

b.1: Truncated. B or R may be read for P
c.1: Truncated. B or R may be read for P
f.2: Truncated. C may be read for G

English translation

Translation by: J. M. Reynolds

a. [---] son [---]; b-e (Not usefully translatable); f (The titles Caesar and Augustus.)

Commentary

The style and material suggest an imperial dedication. Fragment (f) perhaps reads Imp. Caes .../... Aug ...

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 67, whence IRT, 2009, 67, whence EDH 059058; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.

Images

   Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXVII.17)